There needs to be some easier way of sorting out the garbage from the good stuff.

A number of sites use a user moderation system where a number of users are chosen
each day or couple of days either randomly or based by the particpation in the site.

These moderators then allocate points to topics/posts as to how good or bad they are
for example:

relevence,
pimping,
trolling,
insight,
interest

The posts which are modded up get displayed promenantly. The posts which get modded down are not displayed unless the user decides to view every post which most people wont.
A good example is this tech site:

Welcome to the wonderful world of the internet. Free speech and all that. This forum doesn't suck - it's been a great source for info and entertainment. Some of the pimping that goes on cracks me up.

If you haven't noticed there is a healthy population of people here not afraid to call out pimping or trolls. I like it much better that way. Toby makes sure the stupid stuff gets to Flamer's Paradise.

slashdot gets WAY more traffic than kiteforum, so using a similar system is complete overkill. There really aren't that many posts here to skip over that you may label as garbage. This forum is just fine and it's you that seems to be trolling.

No need to bash soulboy. He does have a point, even if he almost lost it by this post's name choice.

I use kiteforum as a source of knowledge, updated info and healthy humour, but often find myself losing my time reading trash.

ItÂ´s nice to know that some people have plenty of time to spend cultivating their adiction to virtual dialetics, but I think that many users who have something else to do would appreciate a ranking system (not censoring) of some sort.